NYPD Misconduct Complaint Database

The NYPD Misconduct Complaint Database shows the 43,144 active or former NYPD officers who have been named in misconduct complaints filed by the public since 2000 according to the investigation records at the Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB). During that period, officers were named in 243,102 individual allegations of misconduct which occurred during 73,226 separate incidents

The database may represent the tip of the iceberg. It does not capture the entire universe of police misconduct. For example, any act of misconduct that was not reported to the CCRB is not included in the database. Furthermore, in nearly 40 percent of cases, the CCRB was unable to identify the officer involved, so they are not represented in the database either.

The vast majority of police misconduct complaints never result in accountability. According to a 2021 report published by the NYCLU, only 4,283 of 180,700 misconduct complaints led to an officer being disciplined, of which 1,530 – or one percent of all cases – received discipline considered serious, which includes forfeiting vacation days, suspension, probation, or termination.

Even when the CCRB substantiates a misconduct complaint, two thirds of those officers never received a penalty. According to a recent court ordered report, the NYPD rarely punishes officers even when they were found to have violated a civilian’s Fourth Amendment rights.

In recent years, police misconduct complaints have surged. The CCRB has had trouble keeping up with the number of complaints submitted to the agency, sometimes having to drop investigations altogether due to a lack of resources. This trend threatens to reduce the sliver of police accountability that advocates and community organizers have managed to secure.

About the Database

Using publicly available CCRB complaint history data (available at NYC OpenData), the NYCLU built a search tool to make the information more accessible. Each row of the database represents a single NYPD officer, including the officer’s name, gender, race or ethnicity, employment status, and their misconduct complaint history. The database includes all CCRB investigations completed by July 17th, 2025.

The misconduct complaint database includes the following information for each officer:

For answers to frequently asked questions, please visit our FAQ page.

The Backstory

For decades, law enforcement departments across the state have fought tooth and nail to keep New Yorkers in the dark about the extent of police misconduct in our communities and what—if anything—departments have done to create accountability.  Following years of advocacy led by directly impacted New Yorkers, in 2020, the state legislature finally repealed the law that hid records from the public. Despite the legislation, law enforcement agencies across the state have continued to resist their release. The NYCLU has sued over a dozen agencies for their records in order to deliver on the transparency that the law requires. The records the NYCLU has obtained can be found here. In February 2025, following NYCLU litigation, New York’s highest court issued a major ruling paving the way for much greater police transparency.

The Data

The City of New York publishes four databases reflecting CCRB investigations and records including databases showing misconduct complaints (“incidents”), misconduct allegations, NYPD officers, and penalties imposed on officers. To access more information about individual misconduct complaints or to access the most up to date information, please refer to the original databases.